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Re:The structure of the special type of DOS files called dir... by badsectoracula on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:48PM (#19247607)
The table at the beginning of the article should answer that: to save a byte. The dot is not saved, FILENAME.TXT is saved as FILENAMETXT on disk.
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